Touching the Void (2003)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 106m
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Joe Simpson, Simon Yates, Richard Hawking
Synopsis:
While descending the never-before-climbed west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, two mountaineers find themselves in a nightmare predicament when one of them breaks his leg and has to be lowered down the mountainside in below zero temperatures.
Review:
Gripping and yet somewhat distracting mix of documentary (interviews with the participants) and dramatic reconstruction. However, the events recounted are so incredibly otherworldly, so outside any normal person's experience, that for the most part one sits stunned at once by the candour of the faces talking at us and by the brutal beauty of the mountain Macdonald so impressively captures on film with his team of actors and technicians.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 106m
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Joe Simpson, Simon Yates, Richard Hawking
Synopsis:
While descending the never-before-climbed west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, two mountaineers find themselves in a nightmare predicament when one of them breaks his leg and has to be lowered down the mountainside in below zero temperatures.
Review:
Gripping and yet somewhat distracting mix of documentary (interviews with the participants) and dramatic reconstruction. However, the events recounted are so incredibly otherworldly, so outside any normal person's experience, that for the most part one sits stunned at once by the candour of the faces talking at us and by the brutal beauty of the mountain Macdonald so impressively captures on film with his team of actors and technicians.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 106m
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Joe Simpson, Simon Yates, Richard Hawking
Synopsis:
While descending the never-before-climbed west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, two mountaineers find themselves in a nightmare predicament when one of them breaks his leg and has to be lowered down the mountainside in below zero temperatures.
Review:
Gripping and yet somewhat distracting mix of documentary (interviews with the participants) and dramatic reconstruction. However, the events recounted are so incredibly otherworldly, so outside any normal person's experience, that for the most part one sits stunned at once by the candour of the faces talking at us and by the brutal beauty of the mountain Macdonald so impressively captures on film with his team of actors and technicians.